Pathena invests in Primetag, a platform where brands and influencers connect

02 November 2017

Pathena invests in Primetag (www.primetag.net), a platform where brands and influencers connect and grow their businesses. With the previous seed investment Primetag have successfully developed its product and attracted renamed brands and influencers to the platform. This investment from Pathena occurs after market validation and 18 months of consistent quarter on quarter growth. The funding will allow Primetag to expand its team and roll out its operations internationally with new influencers and brands, together with continuous R&D investment and home market growth.

Please find bellow 2 news on the Portuguese press about the investment:

Pathena invests in Robotsol, a solutions provider of industrial robotics

11 September 2017

Pathena fully subscribed this Series A round. The investment will allow Robotsol to double headcount to accelerate growth and will enable faster and robust answer to existing client base needs as well as to support Robotsol’s growth with new customers in domestic and international markets. With this investment Robotsol will also reinforce its R&D spent and will develop some standardized solutions for global markets.

This Series A investment occurs on top of an already excellent stand alone company growth and a great market momentum with very high demand for Robotsol’s solutions

The evolution of Banking continues to accelerate at cruising speed. Customers want fast and consistent transactions and expect to be able to access and control their finances using any device and any channel, at any time. Financial institutions have often been held back by cumbrous, inflexible legacy systems. Omni-channel banking enables banks to deliver a seamless and consistent customer experience, whether customers are accessing their bank via a mobile, tablet or visiting a branch in person.

“Digital Banking requires a willingness to think differently, develop collaboratively and move fast. To test, learn and improve. These are the traits that characterize the success of a digital transformation” said Remco Neuteboom, Global Chief Digital Officer, Financial Services at Atos. “Our partnership with ebankIT perfectly fits our ambition to support our clients in their digital transformation journey, and enable them to make the most of every customer contact to drive long-term competitive advantage.”

This partnership between Atos and ebankIT enables banks to design and deliver the services demanded by today’s and tomorrow’s customers, and offer an improved customer experience with real-time, speed, agility and security

Every year, the SME Innovation COTEC-BPI award, created with the support of Público newspaper, recognises a small or medium enterprise (SME) that has stood out in the Portuguese context for its innovative activity and attitude. This is a very prestigious award, having a very strong impact in terms of the notability it brings to the companies it recognises. i2S is one of the two 2016 winners, sharing the first place with ERT. The award was presented by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

The attribution of the award is based on three pillars, whose continuous evolution i2S has always strived to guarantee: Product, Processes and People. This means that this recognition is not associated with just a product or innovation, but rather with a path, a mindset and an attitude developed and refined over the years.

Pathena invests €3M in 360imprimir

04 August 2016

360imprimir, the first Portuguese online printing firm which promises to revolutionize SMEs marketing solutions, announced that it has secured €3 million of financing. The Venture Capital firm Pathena fully subscribed this Series A round. The investment will allow 360imprimir to further expand internationally, while continuing to develop its product scope.

The Series A financing culminated an excellent year for 360imprimir, which presented rapid monthly growth, consolidating its position in the Iberia market and achieved a successful entry into Brazil and Mexico. Founded in 2013, 360imprimir, through its proprietary intelligent aggregation software, offers its customers “fabless” digital printing, with the lowest prices in the market - a one-stop-shop for marketing products.

The investment will be crucial to evolve the company’s product scope, which aims to completely modify SMEs’ marketing solutions, optimizing the consumer’s experience and aligning off- and online strategies. According to Sérgio Vieira, the firm’s CEO “We started by printing, but we intend to completely modify SMEs’ marketing solutions. The fact that we utilize external idle capacity makes this process easier.”

Moreover, both the financial component and Pathena team deep experience in IT companies’ international expansion, will allow 360imprimir to further expand its presence in Latin America, while consolidating its Iberian Market.

For António Murta, Pathena’s Managing Partner, “360imprimir represents the worldwide challenge of digital printing in a “fabless” and self-service fashion (individuals, SMEs). Its growth pattern confirms the execution quality and work of the founders’ team.”

About Pathena Fund

Raised in 2013 by a group of entrepreneurs with solid experience in IT and financing industries and with a track record with a series of well succeeded international exits, Pathena Fund focus in Companies in the late early stage and growth, operating in the information technology and medtech sectors.

About 360imprimir

Founded in 2013, 360imprimir is a fabless online print-shop company providing physical marketing products to SME’s. The firm adopts a Marketplace Business Model based on its proprietary intelligent aggregation software. This allows following a cost leadership strategy, becoming the cheapest one-stop-shop for marketing products for SMEs. 360imprimir already proved its Business Model in Iberia and has recently started operations in Brazil and Mexico with considerable success.